THK CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1011.
FACTE T
NO DANCER OF
INVASION OF
Time Was When Its Ap
pearance Was Occa
sion For a Panic
By JAMES A. EDGERTON.
TUB appearance of cholera In
the port of New York has not
the power to spread terror
that It once had, but Is still a
serious thing. Owing to the progress
of science, common sense and clean
living, a cholora epidemic lu America
Is well nigh Impossible, yet the one
chance In hundred that the 6courgo
may become general must bo combat
ed. It Is raging In Russia, Italy and
other parts of Europe, and the Incom
ing steamers from the Infected ports,
carrying their thousands of Immi
grants, bring the disease to our own
doors. Wo cannot stop tho Immigrants
from coming or at least wo have not
dono so but we can keep out their
diseases.
For this purpose ww long ago estab
lished a quarantine and a health oill
cer for the port of New York. The
man who has held this place for many
years is Dr. Alvah II. Doty. Dr. Doty
Is not a mere local olilclal. He is a na
tional institution", with an interna
tional reputation. Ills great contribu
tion to the study of cholera and to
that of many other Infectious diseases
Is that tho contnglon is carried by per
sons and not by clothing, old rags or,
barring food and water, any other in
animate substance whatsoever. It is
largely due to Dr. Doty's efforts that
the dread Asiatic plague never gets
past the port of Now York, the door of
the nation.
No Panic Nowadays.
In the old days the news that eight
deaths from cholera had occurred on
an island in New York bay would
have occasioned a panic. People would
have lied from New York and from
most of the other eastern cities. Now
it is merely an item of news, ovci
which nobody grows particularly e
cited. Millions in tho metropolis, oul.
a few miles distant from Swlnburn
island, where tho cholora cases an
treated, go about their business will'
unconcern. They know that between
them and tho Infection Is Dr. Doty.
Buttressed by science and supported
by his corps of trained assistants, he
Is equal to tho contest. That Is what
the ago of reason has accomplished for
mankind. Tho Dr. Dotys, fortified by
knowledge, hold tho terrors of old at
bay. Cholera comes, and they close
the door In its face. Tho bubonic
plague appeai-s on tho Pacific coast,
but goes no farther and is allowed to
gain no real foothold even there.
Smallpox is made mild and Innocuous.
The old trinity of terror were war,
famine and pestilence. Science has
driven war Into the shadows outside
of civilization, has rendered fumiue
next to impossible and has put up the
bars against pestilence. If a man of
100 years ago were told these things
he would call them miracles. Yet
they are only tho result of the appli
cation of reason. Men have gained
more knowledge, more self reliance,
more mastery. Democracy and edu
cation have transformed the world.
The more we know and the more we
apply our knowledge, the more se
cure we become. Thus knowledge and
works beget faith and faith in turn
gives mastery nnd power. Tho jungle
recedes, nnd not only tho physli il
jungle, but the psychological Jungli
which held terrors and monsters as
real as the other. Perhaps with all
our advancement we nro only on the
borderland of discovery and invents n
as yot, but tho short distance wo have
gone has already made a new heaven
and a new earth.
Former Cholera Invasions.
Cholera comes in a tide across the
sea, but halts at our shores. Yet tho
time was when it swept beyoud the
coust line and spread terror and death
in our chief cities. In 1S32, and again
in 1S48, it invnded our territory and
the cemeteries of our cities were like
newly plowed fields In Its wake. There
were uncounted furrows of new
graves.
In 1832 cholera appeared in Detroit
and spread throughout tho land. It
arrived in New York on Juno 27 nud
lasted two mouths. In that short time
there were 3,400 deaths In the metrop
olis alone. Death was equally busy In
other northern cities. In Cincinnati
and elsewhere the scourge did not dis
appear till 1833. In St. Louis and New
Orleans the pestilence was at Its worst.
Tho belief held in some sections
that cholera docs not flourish in north
ern climates Is a delusion. Nowhero
Is It more destructive than In Russia.
The only thing that renders America
safe is vigilance. Beforo medical
science and sanitation had reached
their present stato of advancement we
were as subject to the scourge as
others. Our worst cxperlenco camo In
1848 and 1840. It la estimated that
10 pr cent of tho population was
swept off in that visitation of the
plague. In ono week New York re
corded more than 700 deaths.
The Scourge of 1848-0.
There aro many yet living who re
member that scourge. Most of ua have
heard of it from an older generation.
Fortunate was the family that escaped
losing some of Its members. Especial
CHOLERA
THIS COUNTRY
Now Government's Public
Health Machinery In
sures Safety
-a
ly was this true of those living In cit
ies. In the more sparsely settled
country districts tho progress of the
disease was arrested. One writer has
thus spoken of the devastation of those
two awful years:
So stronff was the Instinct of self pres
ervation that In many cases when ono
member of a family developed the first
symptoms of the malady the rest of the
family rushed from the hoUBe and the
city, leaving the victim to die alone.
Tho custom of handshaking was nbol
Ished for fear of contagion, Nobody went
out of doors except upon the most neces
sary errands. Old acquaintances recog
nized each other only by a curt nod.
Many persons walked In tho middle of tho
street to avoid the breath of pedestrians
nnd maneuvered to pass to windward of
all they encountered.
Believing that the smoke of gunpowder
was a preventive, they burned It at Inter
vals In tho houses. Tobacco smoke many
believed In. Even women and children
were seen with cigars and pipes In their
mouths constantly. Others carried tarred
rope In their hands and In every pocket
and hung camphor bags about their necks.
Many chewed garlic for the same purpose
and carried sponges saturated with vine
gar dangling from their buttons and In
haled the smell of It from smelling bot
tles. Funerals were given up altogether, and
the most prominent citizens were uncere
moniously placed In tho death cart nnd
laid away In the cemeteries.
Many on feeling the first symptoms of
colic and nausea, believing a painful
doath certain, committed suicide.
Several on their way to the hospitals
Ieared from the ambulances and fled, pur
sued by the driver, through tho streets,
nono daring to stop them for fear of con
tagion. v
Subsequent visitations of cholera in
America occurred In 1852, 18U5-8 nnd
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even as late ns 1873, when the dis
ease appeared In New Orleans and the
Mississippi valley. It has appeared at
various times since at the port of New
York, but has been checked before en
tering the country.
Filipinos Easy Prey.
The Philippine Islands have been
subject to the scourge for centuries.
Since the American occupation there
have been determined efforts to stamp
It out, with some success. The great
est difficulty has been to teach the na
tives to observe quarantine regulations
and to keep clean. Where people quar
ter their pigs in the houses and eat al
most anything, provided It does not re
quire too much work to get it, cholern
finds n congenial soil. One method of
keeping the plague down was to Inter
dict the eating of certain kinds of veg
etables and fruits, wntermelon being
one of the first prohibited. There are
people who regard watermelon ns a
disease In Itself and do not wonder
that It breeds other diseases. How
ever, If It is kept out of the ears and
enten noiselessly it can be borne at
ordinary times.
Returning to tho kindred subject of
cholera, tho appearance of tho plague
this year haB been earlier than usual.
It Is not only In southern Italy, but has
been reported In Venice nnd Is oxpect
ed to spread to Austria. It is also
making Its annual ravages in Russia,
where superstition and lack of honlth
measures glvo It free rolgn. There the
peasants tear down tlio isolaUon hos
pitals built to caro for tho plnguo vic
tims. They seem-to regard ignorance
as sacred and resent any appearance
of enlightenment as blasphemous. The
customary mothod of dealing with tho
pestilonce among tho poasanta Is to
plow around each village, the plow be
ing drawn by women and children,
holy water being sprinkled along the
way.
One of the greatest agencies for
spreading cholera throughout Asia and
Europe is the annual pilgrimage made
to Mecca by tho Mohammedans.
Macca Is a breeding ground of the
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plague, nnd vast numbers of the faith,
ful contract It nnd carry It buck to
all Moslem lands,
Hussla and Mecca are a lorn: way
from ,the U. S. A., however, and Just
now wo hnvo to keep our own door
yard clean from tho contagion. Tlienl
leged case of the plague that appealed
In Auburn, N. Y.. served to warn the
people of tho danger. The young Ital
ian who died of what was pronounced
cholern thoro had been dctnlncd at
quarantine In New York until the au
thorities wore satisfied, after which he
was allowed to go. lie was evidently
one of tho so called cholora "carriers."
It Is claimed thnt these may bear the
germs In their systems for weeks be
fore stricken down. Sometimes they
escape altogether, but still infect oth
ers. They nro the most dangerous
cases. Ordinarily tho disease develops
In Ave days, so that by quarantining
for that length of time tho health offi
cers feel safe.
A New York paper In giving an ac
count of tho death of the Auburn
victim had one item that Is a trifle
mystifying. It read ns follows:
Tonight a large bonfire was made of
beds, bedding and the clothing of tho vic
tim and his two brothers who nursed him.
Is It not a little drastic to burn up
brothers In this fashion? Perhaps tho
paper meant that only the beds, bed
ding and clothing of the brothers were
fed to the flames, but the wording of
tho thing leaves a dark and clammy
doubt which should be cleared up,
Doty Sees No Danger.
Despite the cases In New York buy
nnd the reported death at Auburn, Dr.
Doty Insists that the country Is not
in the slightest danger. Ho has been
right so often before thnt his word
will go, but he should be careful not
to lot any more cholera carriers get
away and die In distant cities, to the
danger of their beds, clothing, brothers
and the population generally. Sclenco
Is mighty and will prevail, but for all
that cholera Is a rather ticklish thing,
especially in the watermelon season.
The national government Is taking
an Interest in tho matter, as is shown
by the fnct that Surgeon General Wy
man has sent Assistant Surgeon Gen
eral I. B. Cofor, a Pacific coast chol-
NEW YORK QUARANTINE STATION
era expert, to assist Dr. Doty. The
treasury department at Washington
has sent the following order to the
health officers of the ports of New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New
Orleans and Boston:
To diminish the danger from cholera
bacillus carriers steerage passengers com
ing from ports or places where cholera
prevails and arriving on vessels upon
which cholera has appeared shall be de
tained ten days for observation unless
after five days' detention they are found
not to be bacillus carriers. Tho same pro
vision Bhall apply also to other persons
arriving on said vessels who for special
reasons are deemed liable to be thus In
fected, The government also has officers
abroad at the various Infected ports,
detaining passengers on that side, Iso
lating those suspected of Infection and
taking every possible precaution. The
Italian government Is nlso co-operating.
The only dnnger Is that despite all
these measures of protection some
case may slip past nnd infect some
such populous section as the cast side
of New York. Even then It Is be
lleved that medical science would bo
nblo to eopo with the disease ami
stamp It out, but that Is too perilous
a risk. The moment that cholera be
gan to spread In any city panic would
Immediately seize upon tho Inhabitants,
an exodus would ensue, business
would be demoralized and conse
quences would result tliat stagger tho
mind even to contemplate.
In tho meantime the public nt largo
Bhould keep their heads. Thero have
been many cholera scares In the past
forty years that camo to nothing.
Modlcal science is more ablo to cope
with tho disease now than ever beforo.
It Is possible for people to get Into a
state of fear that will make them
proper breeding ground for cholera or
any other disease. Keep cool. Dr.
Doty is still on tho Job, the national
government Is taking all possible pre
cautions, and where American genius
and determination are thus at work
on a problem they may bo depended
on to solve it In the language of Dr.
Doty, "In America we have no reason
to be fearful of Astatic cholera In
these days."
Si
MURILLO FOUND
IN ORPHAN HOM
Painting Was Given by Spanish
Consul Fifty Years Ago.
THOUSANDS OFFERED FOR IT.
Work of Art Shows Virgin Ascending
to Heaven So Willed That It Can
not Be 8old as Long as There Is Any
thing Else Salable In Home.
In the humblo little chapel of St
Vincent's Orphan home, Huston, u Ro
man Catholic Institution for poor chil
dren, thero has Just been discovered
on tho gospel side of tho altar what
Is said to bo an old master. If tho
word of experts is correct the painting
Is worth many thousands of dollars.
A connoisseur from tho Society of
Fine Arts, New York, has Just made
an offer of several thousands of dol
lars for tho painting. Tho Now York
representative, besides making a mon
ey offer, promised n duplicate of the
original.
Tho painting Is entitled "Tho As
sumption of tho Blessed Virgin Into
Heaven." Even If tho work of art Is
worth thousands of dollars. It can nev
er bo disposed of by tho authorities of
tho homo as long as there is anything
else to be sold.
"This painting." said ono of tho au
thorities, "is a very old one, Just how
old 1 do not know. Many years ago
I believe it is more than fifty thero
was in this city a Spanish consul, rep
resentative of his country to this port
He was a devout Catholic and spent
much of his spare tlmo at the home
here.
"Ono day, nearly half a century ago,
he was suddenly ordered homo. Be
fore leaving ho camo hero and left the
painting with tho sisters, with tho un
derstanding that ho would repossess It
when ho returned.
"But ho never camo back. While In
Spain ho was stricken ill and died. Be
fore he passed away, however, ho will
ed us tho painting. But bo laid down
tho condition that It was never to bo
sold as long ns thero was anything else
salable In tho borne.
"We always believed, from what the
early records of tho homo show and
from what has been handed down
through talk In the passing years, that
the painting Is an original. But our
belief was confirmed a few days ago
by Sister Mary Ann, who was In
charge of tho homo."
Standing five by three feet, tho Vir
gin Is shown ascending Into heaven,
clod in flowing robes of purplo and
white. About her, rolling on fleecy
clouds, aro cherubim.
A Manager.
"And what right have you to call
yourself a manager?" asked tho emi
nent and Irate actress after a stormy
rehearsal.
"I suppose," was the deferential re
ply, "It Is because I have managed eo
long to escape with my life." Wash
ington Star.
Business.
"How shall I prove the sincerity of
toy devotion?" aBked .the young man
who had been so long coming to th?
point that doubt had begun to ac
cumulate against him.
"Call the parson In as a witness."
Suggested the young lady, who meant
business.
A Little Way Off.
Tommy What docs the paper mec-i
by calling Mr. Bugghauu an eight r
ten business man? T.'s Father I pre
sume It means he Is not exactly
Appropriate.
"Here's a halrptu in the soup, wall
or," said the mad diner
"Yes. sir. It's all right. It's hare
Bonp, sir." Yonkers Statesman.
HKPUIUjIOAX CANDIDATE
For
COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
Primaries Sept. 30.
I, Ferdinand Kroll, a Republican
of the borough of Honesdale, and a
supporter of tho party, heroby give
notice to the voters of Wayne coun
ty that I announce myself a candi
date for the office of County Com
missioner. If elected I will faith
fully perform the duties of the of
fice and endeavor to reduce the tax
ation of the county.
Yours truly,
F. KUOLL, Blacksmith,
52wl4 Honesdale, Pa.
NOTORIETY BECAUSE OP DOG.
Retirement of Colonel Deems Recalls
Story of His Pet.
Washington, July 20. President Taf t
has accepted tho voluntary application
of Colonel CInrcnco Deems of the const
artillery corps for retirement under
tho forty year service law. Tho action
has been expected for some time by
the authorities.
Colonel Deems gained notoriety by
reason of his pet dog which, according
to complaints made by Major A. W.
Chase and other officers at Fort How
ard under the colonel, had n placo at
the eating table and in a seat in tho
post hack. Tho records in the case
nlso show thnt fleas were mentioned.
This was understood to havo produced
friction between Colonel Deems and
Major Chase, then captain nt Fort
Howard.
Resentment.
"Did you say I was a cheap trick
ster?" asked the ward worker.
"No. I didn't." replied tho ninn who
is close to tho boss. "I merely said
you were a trickster."
"Well, that's all right, but don't you
ever Insinuate that I nm doing a cut
rate business." Washington Star,
v
Wants to Try For Big Prize.
London, July 20. Gllmour, the avia
tor, whose certificate was suspended
by the Aero club because he flow over
the Henley regatta, has begun pro
ceedings to restrain the club's action.
Gllmour Is fighting for a chance to en
ter the Dally Mall's circuit race for
thw prize of $40,000.
ALEX F. VOIGT,
Hawlcy, Pn.,
Democratic Candidate For County
Treasurer. 57t2
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